Wayfaring definition

wāfârĭng
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Traveling, especially on foot.
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Travelling, especially on foot.
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Travel, especially on foot.
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Present participle of wayfare.
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Noun

Singular:
wayfaring
Plural:
wayfarings

Origin of wayfaring

  • From Middle English waifaringe journeying from Old English wegfarende weg way way farende present participle of faran to go on a journey per-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English wayferande, weyverinde, wayverinde, from Old English weÄ¡farende, weÄ¡fÄ“rende (“wayfaring"), equvialent to way +"Ž faring. Cognate with Icelandic vegfarandi. More at wayfare.

    From Wiktionary

Wayfaring Sentence Examples

  • The Society for the Improvement of the Poor, constructed and opened (1921) the Wayfaring hotel to accommodate 500 men.

  • The plants are mainly shrubs and trees; British representatives are Sambucus (elder), Viburnum (guelder-rose and wayfaring tree), Lonicera (honeysuckle) (see fig.); Adoxa (moschatel), a small herb with a creeping stem and small yellowish-green flowers, is occasionally found on damp hedge-banks; Linnaea, a slender creeping evergreen with a thread-like stem and pink bell-shaped flower, a northern plant, occurs in fir-forests and plantations in the north of England and Scotland.

  • The medieval mind was only too prone to look on morality as a highly technical art, quite as difficult as medicine or chancery law - a path where wayfaring men were certain to err, with no guide but their unsophisticated conscience.

  • Shortly before his death Edward founded Christ's Hospital in the Grey Friars, and gave the old palace of Bridewell to the city " for the lodging of poor wayfaring people, the correction of vagabonds and disorderly persons, and for finding them work."

  • Wayfaring Tree (Viburnum Lantana) - One of the two kinds native of Britain, and frequent in hedgerows and copses, especially in chalk or limestone soils.

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